September 30, 2003
Verisign: Documenting the Damage
Link: Consequences of Putting Wildcards in .NET and .COM. Why are so many people pissed that Verisign broke the DNS? The initial anger was that a fundamental assumption of Internet... (read more)
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September 28, 2003
Restrain Verisign
I wrote previously how Verisign broke the Internet by boinking up the Domain Name System (DNS). The move has been met by universal opposition. ICANN, the organization that oversees the... (read more)
September 25, 2003
NAT Breaks the Net
I'm currently sitting on the back porch of the Bouldin Creek Coffee House (motto: South Austin-style service without the sense of urgency), catching up on some email and work. Using... (read more)
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September 24, 2003
Barf!
Late night carousing can wear a person down. I'm not looking for the rarefied atmosphere of some swanky Warehouse District martini bar. I just don't want to be completely grossed... (read more)
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September 19, 2003
Happy Unwiring Day
Today is the day I finally cast off my Ethernet cables. I got wireless networking running on wiener. Wiener is an old Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop. It dual-boots Windows 98... (read more)
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September 18, 2003
Earthlink to Verisign: Piss Off
It's been 48 hours since Verisign broke the Internet, and only a day since ISC released a workaround. The next step is to see whether the major providers deploy a... (read more)
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September 17, 2003
Verisign Greed Breaks the Internet
Link: Verisign redirects error pages. Verisign, the operator of the largest databases for Internet domains, has taken greed to a new level. This week, they implemented a new service to... (read more)
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September 12, 2003
Goodbye, Friend
Yesterday afternoon, I lost my best friend. I've written how over the past month he's gone from sad to worse. Unfortunately, we never could get a diagnosis, and he kept... (read more)
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September 10, 2003
Gentoo and FreeBSD: Not for Me
For the last many years, I used an old 486DX-33 computer as a router between my local network and the Internet. I powered it down yesterday, but when I tried... (read more)
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Product is Shipping
Link: CATool Product Information One of the reasons I like product design so much is because I get giddily excited when people are willing to pay good cash money for... (read more)
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September 05, 2003
My Sick Pussy
Things with the kitty have gone from unhappy to worse. I'm trying to avoid negative predictions about the outcomes, but I am steeling myself for the worst.... (read more)
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